Stereoselectivity in the reaction of spinach plastocyanin with optically active reducing agents
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications
- No. 5,p. 353-354
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c39880000353
Abstract
The kinetics of the reduction of spinach plastocyanin by optically active iron(II) complexes of 2,6-bis[3-(S)- or 3-(R)-carboxy-2-azabutyl]pyridine [(S,S)- or (R,R)-ALAMP] have been studied and the complex with (R,R)-ALAMP (Δ-configuration) reacts 1.6 to 2.0 times faster at different values of pH and temperature than the (S,S)-enantiomer; the activation parameters show that this observed stereoselectivity is a consequence of the differences in the activation entropies (ΔΔS‡ (Δ–Λ)=+15 J mol–1 K–1), which over-compensates the effect of the activation enthalpy, the latter being in favour of the complex with the Δ-configuration (ΔΔH‡ (Δ–Λ)=+ 3.0 kJ mol–1).Keywords
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